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04-23-2004, 19:12
So I'm playing as the French and in late 1190 I decide to send a crusade towards Constantinople (for no other reason but to reap the benefits of the rich province).
The political map is an interesting one at this time, the Egyptians have decimated the Turks and the People of Novgord and own everything from Tripoli up to Finland (including Constantinople)The Germans have been steadily expanding thanks to a long a fruitful alliance with my country and I own everything from Scotland to Cordoba and inland to Lorraine, With Germany boardering every inland province I have since they defeated the Italians.
My goal in this campaign is NOT world conquest so I have gone to great pains to see to it that my alliance with Germany stays intact. I send My crusade through germany and just to knock the Egyptians down a few pegs I march a force of roughly 3500 knights, feudal sargents, long bows, hobilars, and misc light infantry in from Lithuania (after shipping them across the north)
OK so here's the rub. I'm on a blitz mission, after taking provinces from the Egyptians, I destroy everything in them and move on. I did so in Poland and continued South but the Egyptians AND the germans sent a small force into Poland which I had vacated. The Egyptians left and the end result was that Germany took Poland from me, (since the AI doesn't recognize I didn't want it this is a declaration of war) So now my troops in constantinople are holding off wave after wave of Egyptian counter attack and no reservs can be sent as Germany has hordes of boats in the region. The germans have been sending raids into ALL of my Eastern Provinces and since my forces are off fighting Egypt and in Spain hedging against the remenants of the Almohads I have little to work with so they take my province then I take it back to find the Royal Court destroyed, etc http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif . They really need a way to GIVE provinces to other countries so this doesn't happen. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif
The political map is an interesting one at this time, the Egyptians have decimated the Turks and the People of Novgord and own everything from Tripoli up to Finland (including Constantinople)The Germans have been steadily expanding thanks to a long a fruitful alliance with my country and I own everything from Scotland to Cordoba and inland to Lorraine, With Germany boardering every inland province I have since they defeated the Italians.
My goal in this campaign is NOT world conquest so I have gone to great pains to see to it that my alliance with Germany stays intact. I send My crusade through germany and just to knock the Egyptians down a few pegs I march a force of roughly 3500 knights, feudal sargents, long bows, hobilars, and misc light infantry in from Lithuania (after shipping them across the north)
OK so here's the rub. I'm on a blitz mission, after taking provinces from the Egyptians, I destroy everything in them and move on. I did so in Poland and continued South but the Egyptians AND the germans sent a small force into Poland which I had vacated. The Egyptians left and the end result was that Germany took Poland from me, (since the AI doesn't recognize I didn't want it this is a declaration of war) So now my troops in constantinople are holding off wave after wave of Egyptian counter attack and no reservs can be sent as Germany has hordes of boats in the region. The germans have been sending raids into ALL of my Eastern Provinces and since my forces are off fighting Egypt and in Spain hedging against the remenants of the Almohads I have little to work with so they take my province then I take it back to find the Royal Court destroyed, etc http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif . They really need a way to GIVE provinces to other countries so this doesn't happen. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif